Driving Safely To Hospital Is The Right Thing To Do

Driving Safely To Hospital Is The Right Thing To Do

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Being a dad is new to everybody when they have their first child, but nobody told me about the little things that I never dreamt of, like the amount of Bear in the Big Blue House I would have to watch or how to negotiate with a 6 month baby on the benefits of eating solids or how tired both my wife and I would feel at the end of the day, or the frequency I would wake up on the couch in front of the TV at 4 in the morning.

For me the first urgent situation was the drive into the hospital. Liz and I had discussed it at length. We live about thirty miles from the city, so a fifty minute drive was estimated with normal traffic and of course keeping to the speed limits. As soon as Liz became aware that baby was on the way I was to get a call on the mobile. I wanted to be organised and have my wife in good hands as early as possible, as I was not all too good on the medical side of things and I would feel far but feel much better if I could be sure that there was a mid wife in the room!!

So when the call came I finished up my work and left the office to head home. I was greeted at the door by Liz's Dad. He too liked to be organised and had carefully documented the time between contractions. Both mother and father in law dutifully handed over their daughter for me to finish what I had started! Upon my arrival I was unsure of what to expect but Liz looked calm. She was totally in control. She said we still had a wait before we headed for the hospital. I as usual was unsure if the wait was to be a long one or a short wait, there was no set timeframe. Five hours later it was time to go, the contractions had increased as Liz expected them to and the next stage was imminent.

The bag was packed for ages and had all the baby products were in it baby nappies, baby vests and all the various ointments that I would become overly familiar with over the next few months. As we got into the car I asked "are you ok" to which I got a strange look. Our now long in the distant detailed discussions had specifically required for me to drive carefully, stopping at all the traffic lights and obeying the rules of the road. This I did as a duty filled expecting father until we got half way to the city where my calm co driver!! let out a high pitched command that I speed up and get to the hospital NOW.

This is every guys dream, at the wheel of the car with an expecting mother beside him being commanded to hurry up. With the smell of burning rubber from the tyres I did just that and if stopped by the police I had the perfect get out of jail card! So we did speed up to the point that we got to the hospital in a record breaking 30 minutes with no interruptions from the Law. I whisked Liz into the maternity ward and handed her over to the medical staff, where after another eight hours delivered Zac. Our lives had now changed. Little did I realise that the trip into the hospital would be the last time there would be two people in our family.

About the Author:
Upon the arrival of his son Zac, Liz and I created a card to send out to family & friends thanking them for their kind gifts. The interest was so great www.mybabycards.ie was born. Customers can take a card design, customise it with their own message of thanks and upload a baby photo, proof it and order direct to their door. The site is really simple to use and delivers to Ireland.



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